> engineers overseeing design work on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration
Who would have thought that engineers employed by Boeing but working 'for' the FAA would cause an issue? It's the 'business friendly' relationship between the FAA and Boeing that's lost both credibility around the world.
This quote from Seattle Times article sums up the relationship:
> “The FAA basically takes orders from Boeing. That’s been going on for the past 10, 15 years for sure,” said Joe Jacobsen, who worked for Boeing from 1984 to 1995 and then at the FAA for more than 15 years. “At the FAA, they talked about being a partnership [between the regulator and the company]. I would call it more of an abusive-spouse relationship.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/faas-cozy-relationship... (archive: https://archive.ph/F5BWe)
For all people worrying about AI "alignment":
We already have autonomous entities who are a danger to Humanity. They are called firms.
(No wonder that it's a bunch of very ruthless CEOs who seem the most worried by rogue AIs. But the lack of self-reflection - both with them and with the talking heads who invite them on conferences - is flabbergasting to watch)
The companies are in various ways run by people.
Unfortunately, it has become accepted that raw greed is a great ideology for running a business. Which in turn attracts people who are driven by greed.
These days we have a lot of people leading companies making bullshit flowery descriptions of their company and how to run things. but sadly for the most part this is stripped away when reality sets in.
Especially if the company is beholdent to investors or shareholders or similar hands behind the scenes who have their own agendas.
A lot of horrible and inhuman things companies do are explicitly legal. More so in some countries than in others.
As long as we worship greed, things cannot improve.
The Oxford definition of greed:
"intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food"
Greed by its nature is depriving others of something. If there is an endless supply of food lets say. Post scarcity, anyone can eat as much as they want, a person eating a lot of not displaying selfishness. . It may be gluttony, but the person is only harming itself.
If there is scarcity of food, and a person is hoarding it for itself is greed and it means others go hungry.
That is not a hypothetical.
It is the way our society works right now. Some people, cities, states, nations, have far more than they could ever eat, while others in different places are starving to death. Even within the US, a place with a supreme abundance of food, peole are going hungry
> Congress subsequently began to reverse the yearslong trend of delegating more of the FAA’s safety oversight to Boeing itself.
Does anyone have more info about this?
More proof of the US decadence... After the moral abyss with the its role in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. All its colonial wars in Eurasia... Now comes the tech decadence... No need to talk about the abysmal debt....
Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Companies are amoral, they literally can't be otherwise.
I'm not sure where that puts humans in an effort to defend ourselves. We must be moral, we are judged harshly otherwise.
A company uses psychology tricks against its customers(aka Ads/Marketing) making them feel status insecure or a group outsider, totally fine. Actually, those blue bubbles were a great idea, I made sooo much money on stocks. Really feel bad for teenagers though.
Boeing can replace their management and the company continues. These big companies are applauded for being amoral because their stock prices go up.
At the end of the day it seems there is some power sharing agreement between government, corporations, and to a significantly lesser extent workers/consumers. We only judge that latter group on morals.
Maybe we need to collectivize like the Physician Cartel does (American Medical Association), then workers/consumers can collectively be amoral.